Tobacco box, Round box with flattened ball shape, and round lid with gold-plated silver hinge. The outside is horizontally divided into two friezes, on which alternating cartouches and weapon trophies with guns, banners, armor and drums. The cartouches in the lower zone contain a small representation of a sailing ship (below the hinge), a country house, a walled fortress by the sea, and a landscape with houses, in the upper zone the cartouches are filled with identical garlands. Between each cartouche and trophy is always a shell design with a hanging and a stylized hanging leaf design. The underside bears a coat of arms with a helmet sign, representing a climbing lion with a sloping beam through which three stars (Nuyts family?). The whole is placed in a wreath of shells and garlands. The lid is decorated with a representation of four classical women, personifications of the liberal arts: in the middle Sculptura who chops a bust, bottom right Architectura (a woman with a compass, sphere and rectangle), possibly standing on the right Geometria with a square, and on the far left an unidentified personification with stick and book. The hinge displays a finely engraved pattern of rocaille-like motifs reminiscent of colonial silver., anonymous, Dieppe, 1740 - 1760, ivory, gilding (material), scharnier, gilding, d 8.7 cm × h 5.5 cm
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